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No this isn't a list of bugs, its a list of what to do when you send a bug
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report. I've included this because lots of bug reports I receive are incomplete
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and I have to email back asking for more information, and often receive no
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reply. It costs me real money to do this which is in very short supply.
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Please use one of the following methods:
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1. Technical description of bug, basically where it is in the source and/or a
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fix.
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2. As much information as possible about the bug. You should include:
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a. Your hardware and hard disk driver software.
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b. Version of MiNT, Minixfs and TOS.
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c. As much information as you can about the bug. If I can't recreate the bug
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then there isn't much I can do to fix it. Basically some method (as simple
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as possible) to recreate the bug is best, also if fsck complains before
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or after the problem as well. All relevant alerts or debugging/trace info
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would help as well. Note also the output of minit with the '-t' flag should
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be sent to me as well; this helps enormously in tracing bugs.
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Please remember I have an STE and limited software, so if you say "When
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I run x.prg on a minix partition it crashes" and 'x.prg' is commercial software
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then I can't really do much to help. If 'x.prg' is free then I may be able to
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download it. Alternatively if you know how to recompile minixfs and you don't
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mind doing a few tests then I may be able to trace things that way. In any case
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you should be prepared to answer a few questions at least.
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One more point. Using Minixfs with older versions of MiNT may make bugs
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appear which are caused by the MiNT kernel. Please use the latest version
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possible. Preferably at least 1.08 . Any bug reports using MiNT versions prior
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to 0.95 are untestable. The version of MiNT normally supplied with MultiTOS i.e.
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1.04 can be rather unstable when used with Minixfs due to MiNT bugs (if you
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try to change a disk with MiNT 1.04 is crashes horribly). A known MiNT 0.95 bug
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is that it loads filesystems twice ...
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Reports should be addressed to:
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shenson@nyx.cs.du.edu
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If you send it to Usenet then I may well miss it. In fact I may take a long
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time to reply anyway, so mailing the MiNT mailing list may be more productive.
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